Motivational Quotes

Business

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Business

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Thomas, Dylan

Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

O'Reilly, Anthony J. F.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

You never really hear the truth from your subordinates until after 10 in the evening.

Jurgen Schrempp

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

The more I know about business, the more IÆm convinced that it is conducted in homes and churches far more than in office buildings.

Laura Moncur

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

Hawken, Paul

10.

It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Buffett, Warren

11.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication

Gerber, Michael E.

13.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

14.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Dunn, Paul H.

15.

Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Baudrillard, Jean

16.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Peters, Thomas J.

17.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

Pickens, T. Boone

18.

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory.Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat.Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Handy, Charles

19.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

Manzi, Jim

20.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Perot, H. Ross

21.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

Young, Owen D.

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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Leavitt, Theodore

23.

Few great men could pass personal.

Goodman, Paul

24.

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall

25.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

Chandler, Raymond

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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Coffin, Harold

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HereÆs my theory about meetings and life; the three things you canÆt fake are erections, competence and creativity. ThatÆs why meetings become toxic they put uncreative people in a situation in which they have to be something they can never be. And the more effort they put into concealing their inabilities, the more toxic the meeting becomes. One of the most common creativity-faking tactics is when someone puts their hands in prayer position and conceals their mouth while they nod at you and say,'Mmmmmm. Interesting.'If pressed, theyÆll add,'IÆll have to get back to you on that.'Then they donÆt say anything else.

Douglas Coupland

28.

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.

Dumas, Alexandre

29.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

30.

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Herzen, Alexander

31.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars.

Baruch, Bernard M.

32.

When two friends have a common bank account, one sings and the other weeps.

Proverb

33.

If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

34.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

35.

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Blair, Tony

36.

Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without.

37.

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

38.

Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems.

39.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Warren Buffett

40.

There's a lot more business out there in small town America than I ever dreamed of.

Walton, Sam

41.

Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

42.

The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?

Frand, Erwin

43.

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Maurois, Andre

44.

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

Dewolf, Nicholas

45.

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

Bean, L.L.

46.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

A dinner lubricates business.

Lord William Stowell

48.

The business that considers itself immune to the necessity for advertising sooner or later finds itself immune to business.

Brown, Derby

49.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Cathcart, Jim

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Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.